Biography:Ying Wei
Ying Wei | |
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| Nationality | Chinese |
| Alma mater | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign University of Science and Technology of China |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistics |
| Institutions | Columbia University |
Ying Wei is a statistician and a professor of biostatistics in the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, working primarily on quantile regression, semiparametric models of longitudinal data, and their applications.[1]
Wei graduated with a B.S. degree in 1998 and a master's degree in 2001 from the University of Science and Technology of China. In 2004, Wei earned her Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.[1] Her dissertation, Longitudinal Growth Charts Based on Semiparametric Quantile Regression, was completed under the supervision of Xuming He.[2] Since 2004, Wei has been a faculty member of Biostatistics in the Columbia University, and also an affiliated member of the Data Science Institute.[3]
In 2011, Wei received the Noether Young Scholar Award of the American Statistical Association, "for outstanding early contributions to nonparametric statistics."[4] In 2015, Wei was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[5] Wei is also an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.[6] In 2020 she was named as a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics "for contributions to the development, dissemination, and application of mathematical statistics".[7]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ying Wei, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, https://www.mailman.columbia.edu/people/our-faculty/yw2148, retrieved 2017-11-19
- ↑ Ying Wei at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Ying Mei, Columbia University Data Science Institute, http://datascience.columbia.edu/ying-wei, retrieved 2017-11-23
- ↑ Gottfried E. Noether Awards, American Statistical Association, http://www.amstat.org/ASA/Your-Career/Awards/Gottfried-E-Noether-Awards.aspx, retrieved 2017-11-19
- ↑ ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, http://www.amstat.org/ASA/Your-Career/Awards/ASA-Fellows-list.aspx, retrieved 2017-11-19
- ↑ Individual members, International Statistical Institute, https://www.isi-web.org/index.php/about-isi/who-is-isi/members/indivual, retrieved 2017-11-19
- ↑ Congratulations to the 2020 IMS Fellows!, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, May 17, 2020, https://imstat.org/2020/05/17/congratulations-to-the-2020-ims-fellows/, retrieved 2020-07-04
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